کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5059061 | 1371774 | 2014 | 6 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
- We build a heterogeneous-agent DSGE model to discuss the impact of changing cross-sectional income differentials.
- We aim at clarifying the sources of increasing indebtedness in bottom income-quantile US households.
- Differential productivity growth across agents results in much smaller debt divergence than tax reallocation.
- Anticipated increases in income growth differential are inconsistent with the cross-sectional US debt dynamics.
- Economies with substantial income-consumption divergence require low cost of access to financial markets.
We show that to account for the cross-sectional divergence in debt-to-income ratios in US data a DSGE model must assume a tax reallocation across the top- and bottom-income quantile of the population, rather than differential productivity growth, and low cost of access to financial intermediation.
Journal: Economics Letters - Volume 123, Issue 2, May 2014, Pages 177-182